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GIS News: Facebook Smartphone App Competition, gvSIG Code Sprint

Filed in GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on August 2, 2011 • 0 Comments
GIS News: Facebook Smartphone App Competition, gvSIG Code Sprint

The most recent geospatial industry news brings notice of a Facebook Competition by a SSTL to “develop innovative applications that will run on its smartphone-powered satellite due for launch into space next year”, gvSIG announces the results of its result code sprint, SuperGeo and GfK GeoMarketing announce new products, and URISA, Esri, OGC, and Aligned [...]

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GIS News: Horn of Africa Drought, Image of the Week, OpenDataPhilly

Filed in GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on July 22, 2011 • 0 Comments
GIS News: Horn of Africa Drought, Image of the Week, OpenDataPhilly

The European Space Agency has released Horn of Africa drought imagery and its image of the week showing Patagonia.   The OGC is seeking input on two projects, and Esri and Azavea both announced the availability of data from OpenDataPhilly.  FIND Map, SuperGeo, Cadcorp, Timmons Group, eSpatial, and URISA round out the list of companies [...]

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GIS News: Esri releases, Image of the Week from ESA

Filed in GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on July 10, 2011 • 0 Comments
GIS News: Esri releases, Image of the Week from ESA

The roundup of geospatial news over the past week includes several software and data announcements from Esri, an image of the week from ESA covering the volcanic island of Guadalupe, and the winners of the 2011 Thacher Environmental Research Contest.  SuperGeo, Topcon, TC Technology, OGC, Bluesky, eSpatial, IDV Solutions, gvSIG,  and Safe Software also have released announcements. [...]

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GIS News: Greenland Ice Thickness, OpenDataPhilly now Open Source

Filed in GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on July 1, 2011 • 0 Comments
GIS News: Greenland Ice Thickness, OpenDataPhilly now Open Source

The latest GIS industry news roundup includes an image of Greenland’s ice sheet from ESA’s Image of the Week series, Azavea has released the code of the OpenDataPhilly.org project which is now available as open source software, and the OGC has completed its Special Activity Airspace (SAA) Dissemination Pilot.  Digital Map Products, Cityworks, eSpatial, and SuperGeo also have announcements [...]

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GIS News: OGC Seeks Comments, GISCI Endorses the Department of Labor's Geospatial Technology Competency Model

Filed in GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on June 23, 2011 • 0 Comments

Announcements from IDV Solutions, GISCI, OGC, SuperGeo, 1Spatial, PolicyMap, Safe Software, and RapidEye make up today’s geospatial industry news. IDV Solutions IDV Solutions, maker of Visual Fusion business intelligence software, will present a webinar, “Success Stories for Global Security & Asset Management in SharePoint,” on Thursday, June 30, 2011, from 2 to 3 p.m. EDT: Register [...]

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